Organising information into manageable bits to remember it better is called:

1. A long string of items exceeds what short-term memory can hold at once. 2. Grouping them reduces the number of separate things to hold. 3. Another strategy is chunking: you organize information into manageable bits or chunks. 4. A phone number remembered in groups rather than as ten digits is the everyday example. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 8 'Memory', sections 8.1-8.4_